They haven't said anywhere that this is all that's going on for the anniversary/holiday season. There's some sort of Life Day thing happening in the game, I think? You guys are silly for assuming that fireworks are definitively all there is to all of this. I bet there's more to come.

The one that bothers me is the taxi speeders disappearing. They never did that for me until 1.4 came along, and now they flicker and disappear all the time. It's silly to look at.

Someone mentioned on the boards before about wanting an option to restart your class quest at 50th and play through it again. I'd LOVE to be able to do that, though I see many obvious hurdles that it would present (companions being a huge one). Even more, I wish there was a legacy-only perk (not tired to credits, cartel coins, etc... strictly legacy) that allowed you to level up through JUST playing your class quests. Cleaning up the alleys of Nar Shadaa and hunting Rakghouls for the sixth time prevents me from ever wanting to make a new character, which is a shame, because I REALLY want to see some of the other stories. I just am dreading the grind through a lot of the planet non-class content.

I /think/ that F2Pers are included in the announcement. They said anyone with a valid account on that date. If it doesn't include F2Pers, I agree that it should.

I don't have any full-body screenshots of my Chiss Shadow's current clothes, but here's one that sorta' shows: http://i46.tinypic.com/qz23is.jpg And here's an instagram-like screenie from back in his Tython days, lol http://i48.tinypic.com/2v9xw.jpg And because this is Star Wars: http://i48.tinypic.com/2irm4nb.png

Thank you for the little celebratory fireworks, SWTOR. :-D I think they'll be neat little things, although I also liked the reusable idea (BUT THAT'S BECAUSE I'M SELFISH!). For the rest of you who are complaining, wow. You guys act like the developers had a round-table meeting, and someone decided to greenlight the Fireworks idea as the studio's holiday project. The reality is the fireworks are probably a couple-hour thing that someone made in some extra time, and they decided to give 'em to us as a cool little thing. They're completely optional. You guys who don't want to use them don't have to. :-D

I thought this was pretty humorous. When you're in Grathan's estate, and you choose to "befriend" his wife (trying to make good word choices, here!), his wife asks if you're going to ask your companion to leave so they can be more friendly(ahem). The Warrior can choose to say something along the lines of "Vette never leaves my side." And I just laaauuughed and laughed, 'cuz Vette says something like, "You've GOT to be kidding me." Pretty humorous, in a dark sort of way.

That would make the most sense, to me, simply because doing it any other way would probably require a rebalancing act at the end game for the developers. That's just a guess, though.

I've seen a lot of F2P people tonight on Tython wondering why it takes so long for them to be able to say anything in chat. A lot of them have questions, and they can't respond quickly when we're trying to help them. I tried to direct a couple people toward Preferred Player status, but I'm not even sure what the chat restrictions there, are, because the chart at http://www.swtor.com/free/features is anything but detailed in some categories. It's entirely possible that I don't understand the reasoning behind this particular restriction, but if it's not a security issue, I do think the chat restrictions should be eased or lifted, or a way to fully unlock chat added to the cartel market for a cheap price. Another person mentioned how warzones would be difficult for them if they couldn't signal incomings, et cetera.

Yeah, if a paying subscriber wants to join, they should bypass the queue completely, the game should bump a F2P person, and the subscriber should get their spot. Seems easy enough to me! Riiiiiiiight.

I believe it was mentioned somewhere that 1.5 is part of the F2P release. Also, any word on what Cartel Coins will cost to purchase?

Maintenance was delayed so that players would stay up playing Star Wars tonight, and then be too tired to go to the voting polls tomorrow. And since everyone knows MMO players are pot-smoking hippies (and thus liberal leaning)... this has Romney written all over it!

How can it be a lie if they said they were aiming for 6 weeks, but might fluctuate based on production, testing, etc? And they never promised 6 weeks, anyway, did they? I never saw a release date or anything like that. Just a forecast and a guide plan. People should just chill and go with the flow. It's coming. My guess is announcement on Thursday, release next Tuesday :-D